Senate Passes Bill to End Trump’s Global Tariffs
        
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                            Posted By: earlybird,
            
            10/30/2025 7:58:00 PM
        
        
            
        
        
            Senators have passed a bill to revoke the national emergency declaration used by President Donald Trump as the legal basis for his reciprocal global tariff measures.
The Senate voted 51–47 on Oct. 30 in favor of the joint resolution, S.J. Res. 88, introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).. (snip)Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), speaking on the Senate floor, said: “It’s no secret that for decades, countries around the globe have raised tariff and non-tariff barriers against Americans and against American businesses and have raised costs for Americans and American businesses without response by the United States.
        
                
        
        
     
    
    
        
        
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                Reply 1 - Posted by: 
earlybird 10/30/2025 8:01:45 PM (No. 2023821)
            
More Dem spite against Trump.  No concern for our country.
            
            
                
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                Reply 2 - Posted by: 
DVC 10/30/2025 8:02:18 PM (No. 2023822)
            
The RINOs helping Dems to harm Trump's superb foreign policy.
            
            
                
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                Reply 3 - Posted by: 
danu 10/30/2025 8:11:12 PM (No. 2023829)
            
2 crapo reasons at once  wow what gives hem the right?
            
            
                
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                Reply 4 - Posted by: 
TrueBlueWfan 10/30/2025 8:14:42 PM (No. 2023831)
            
Pres. Trump can veto it, right?
            
            
                
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                Reply 5 - Posted by: 
WhamDBambam 10/30/2025 8:16:02 PM (No. 2023835)
            
At least they clearly identify themselves, as if there were any doubt.
            
            
                
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                Reply 6 - Posted by: 
wilarrbie 10/30/2025 8:25:37 PM (No. 2023839)
            
Their team mascot is a monkey wrench.
            
            
                
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                Reply 7 - Posted by: 
earlybird 10/30/2025 8:26:26 PM (No. 2023840)
            
FTA:
Despite the outcome, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is unlikely to bring these resolutions to the floor for a vote.
Vice President JD Vance, following his meeting with Senate Republicans, stated that these votes are a “huge mistake,” as tariffs provide the president with leverage to “put American workers first.”
            
            
                
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                Reply 8 - Posted by: 
MindMadeUp 10/30/2025 8:27:51 PM (No. 2023842)
            
Crapo... What an appropriate name. Who voted for Crapo?
            
            
                
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                Reply 9 - Posted by: 
kono 10/30/2025 8:40:20 PM (No. 2023847)
            
Not worth a moment of distress, as the margin is nowhere near veto-proof.
            
            
                
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                Reply 10 - Posted by: 
BarryNo 10/30/2025 8:45:43 PM (No. 2023848)
            
DOA in House.
            
            
                
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                Reply 11 - Posted by: 
Starboard_side 10/30/2025 8:51:35 PM (No. 2023850)
            
Doesn't mean much since the House isn't voting on these and Trump would likely veto.
What this does do is illustrate for SCOTUS that Congress gave Trump the authority to use the tariffs under the emergency declaration since the decided to vote to remove that tool he was able to use for negotiating new trade deals that will benefit the citizens of the United States.
            
            
                
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                Reply 12 - Posted by: 
earlybird 10/30/2025 9:13:17 PM (No. 2023859)
            
Crapo (craypo) is a Conservative Reoublican.
            
            
                
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                Reply 13 - Posted by: 
itsonlyme 10/30/2025 9:16:04 PM (No. 2023860)
            
Senate RINO'S in the RINO Hall Of Fame voting against DJT and tariffs:
Susan Collins, Maine
Lisa Murkowski, Alaska
Rand Paul, Kentucky*
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky*
 ALL of them despise DJT 
*Kentucky - Home State of Thomas Massie
            
            
                
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                Reply 14 - Posted by: 
whyyeseyec 10/30/2025 9:50:39 PM (No. 2023872)
            
2026 will be the year of the congressional takedown. It's a midterm election cycle, and many Congress members are going to be in the sites of the DOJ, as well as they should be. Trump's revenge will be glorious!!
            
            
                
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                Reply 15 - Posted by: 
Calvinesq 10/30/2025 9:52:53 PM (No. 2023874)
            
So, let me get this straight. These RINOs voted with the Dems without any deal to have the Dems agree to voting for the CR?  What the hell is wrong with these people? Get something in return for your treachery. you morons!
            
            
                
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                Reply 16 - Posted by: 
Nimby 10/30/2025 9:53:17 PM (No. 2023876)
            
Lisa and susan have to be primaried!!
            
            
                
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                Reply 17 - Posted by: 
vhs68 10/30/2025 9:56:11 PM (No. 2023877)
            
Madness!!  explained Colonel Nicholson.    Madness!!
            
            
                
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                Reply 18 - Posted by: 
SALady 10/30/2025 9:58:06 PM (No. 2023878)
            
I believe the word that everyone is looking for is V E T O !!!
            
            
                
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                Reply 19 - Posted by: 
DVC 10/30/2025 10:30:19 PM (No. 2023886)
            
The House won't even vote on this, so this is the end of it. Going nowhere...and even if it did pass the House, Trump will veto it, so doubly dead.
            
            
                
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                Reply 20 - Posted by: 
skacmar 10/30/2025 10:43:06 PM (No. 2023890)
            
Question for Democrats and confused "Republicans": Why is it that only American tariffs harm businesses while foreogn tariffs are apparently just fine and somehow have no effect on prices or businesses? They don't hink high foreign tariffs and trade barriers on American made goods harm American businesses? Are they really that clueless or do they just disagree with Trump because they hate him.
            
            
                
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                Reply 21 - Posted by: 
LC Chihuahua 10/30/2025 10:58:21 PM (No. 2023895)
            
Check their bank accounts.  This is what corrupt government looks like.
            
            
                
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                Reply 22 - Posted by: 
WV.Hillbilly 10/30/2025 11:53:20 PM (No. 2023904)
            
It's going nowhere.
            
            
                
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                Reply 23 - Posted by: 
5 handicap 10/31/2025 5:38:30 AM (No. 2023922)
            
We know for sure that China owns McConnell, A $25,000,000 wedding present sealed that deal, but the TREASON by these other 3, sometimes 4, senators is just a matter of despising the country , I guess or in Murkowski's case, STUPIDITY!
3/4 of the time Rand Paul is an Ass for no particular reason!
            
            
                
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                Reply 24 - Posted by: 
LLAMA 10/31/2025 6:54:42 AM (No. 2023953)
            
What do McConnell, Paul, and Massie have in common?  Is there something in the drinking water there that makes a person delirious?
            
            
                
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                Reply 25 - Posted by: 
Strike3 10/31/2025 7:02:59 AM (No. 2023956)
            
Trump will veto this faster than Hillary Clinton can grab a dollar. Why are they doing this instead of attempting to end their silly shutdown?
            
            
                
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            The deep state is getting cash poor.
            
            
                
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                Reply 27 - Posted by: 
Marzipan4 10/31/2025 8:43:47 AM (No. 2024001)
            
Such great wisdom from our leaders. As they sit and argue about how to fund the government, they cut off a major income source. Why?  Trump bad must at all cost go against anything he is for.
            
            
                
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                Reply 28 - Posted by: 
Rumblehog 10/31/2025 8:49:20 AM (No. 2024005)
            
All deranged anti-Trumpers and corrupted politicians who voted to illegally limit the Executive’s powers that the Congress had originally granted the President on Tarrifs during such times as these. The DOJ should begin investigation on Mitch McConnell for one into what ties he has with CCP money through his wife, Elaine Cho, daughter of a Chinese shipping magnate.
            
            
                
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                Reply 29 - Posted by: 
SouthTxRat 10/31/2025 9:30:47 AM (No. 2024027)
            
Thanks President Trump for exposing which RINO's were getting rich from USAID!
            
            
                
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                Reply 30 - Posted by: 
red1066 10/31/2025 9:45:32 AM (No. 2024034)
            
What's absolutely nuts about these people, is that they acknowledge that foreign countries levy high tariffs against American products entering their country and even ban American products from being sold in their countries, yet they see the U.S. levying tariffs as being bad. Where are the men in white jump suits with strait jackets to haul these people away?
            
            
                
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                Reply 31 - Posted by: 
clayusmcret 10/31/2025 10:04:27 AM (No. 2024065)
            
RINO jerks.  It's a moot point, though.  The House won't bring it to a vote, but it reinforces to us who the republican nevertrumpers are in the senate.  When I lived in NC, it hurt to watch both Burr (thankfully gone) and Tillis (on his way out) turn into such backstabbers.
No surprise about Collins and Murkowsky, either.
            
            
                
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                Reply 32 - Posted by: 
swarfer 10/31/2025 10:56:37 AM (No. 2024107)
            
It’s all a political ploy by Republicans. They can say that there against it then say their for it when the numbers look good. They do this sort of thing all the time when they know it won’t mean anything because it takes the House and of course there is the veto which a divided Congress can’t override. Pure political theater. Democrats did the opposite thing with a clean CR, voting for it now against it.
            
            
                
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                Reply 33 - Posted by: 
chagrined 10/31/2025 11:08:07 AM (No. 2024116)
            
Poster #8 - Who would vote for Crapo?  Easy.  People with crapo for brains, that's who!  
I know his name is pronounced craypo, but I prefer the other pronunciation for this situation.
            
            
                
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                Reply 34 - Posted by: 
Geoman 10/31/2025 1:09:18 PM (No. 2024183)
            
President Trump was quoted before the elections last year in saying, "Tariff is the most beautiful word in the English language;" however, the word came from Arabic (ta’arifeh) and was picked up by Europeans, passed to the English by Italian and other Mediterranean merchant traders as a trade import tax imposed by governments.  Our Constitution does not use the word "tariff," a most international word, but uses the descriptive American English synonyms of the 18th century. 
Please read Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution to clear up any tariff-related misconceptions: 
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises (collectively tariffs), to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence (sp) and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States."  
Since 1788, when the Constitution was ratified, the text of Article I remains the supreme Law of the Land, unless or until changed by the Constitutional Amendment process.  Art.I, Sec 8 uses uncharacteristically plain language, brief and direct. The first clue as to which branch was specifically Constitutionally empowered to lay and collect tariffs is that the power was not placed in Article II, which defines powers and duties of the Executive Branch. Like all tax and spend matters, including borrowing, such power  was placed in Article I, exclusive to the Legislative Branch (The Congress). Trump's claimed tariff powers are based on democrat enacted statutes, signed into law by democrat presidents, which gives the Executive Branch a role in laying and collecting tariffs that our Constitution specifically does not. No Constitutional Amendment has ever been proposed to give the president the power to "Lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises," so as of 2025, the tariff power remains exclusively with Congress.  That is not to say that Trump is ineffective in his 2025 Tariff manipulations but rather pointing out that our Constitution was very specific in delegating that power to the deliberative body that is our Congress.  All federal workers, including military and the president, must swear an oath to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution, although many willingly turn a blind eye to the Constitution vis-a-vis President Trump's claim of Tariff power.  If any public law can supersede the actual language of the Constitution, then some future democrat passed public law can take away or significantly water down any or all of the first ten Amendments, our Bill of Rights, without affirmatively following the amendment process given us by the Framers.  The democrats would love to eliminate the 2nd Amendment once they regain control of Congress and the White House.  Those are the stakes at play, not 'Trump can get us a better deal if he, alone, controls tariffs.'
            
            
                
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                Reply 35 - Posted by: 
paral04 10/31/2025 1:17:03 PM (No. 2024188)
            
That seems useless since Trump can veto it.
            
            
                
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